We have been proud to showcase the work of local artists in our lobby over the years with approximately four exhibits a year. Local artists interested in exhibiting their work should contact Sara Sedillo at s.sedillo@2100webster.com.
Now featuring works by Ms. Wang Fang Lan (Jolene Chang)
Ms. Wang Fang Lan (Jolene Chang) was born into a scholarly family in Henan Province, China. She left home at an early age to pursue a college education in Shanghai. After World War II, she and more than 300 college students followed the government of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, where she began a new life.
From childhood, Jolene loved literature and art, and found joy in nature and all objects of beauty. She was especially fascinated by calligraphy and painting. While maintaining a demanding schedule as an elementary school principal in Taiwan, she continued to deepen her knowledge of art and literature. She studied under masters of traditional Chinese painting, Huang Junbi and Hu Nian Zu.
In the 1960s, Jolene, her husband, and their family immigrated to the United States. They lived in Portland, Provo, and Salt Lake City, Utah. While helping raise her children, she continued her artistic pursuits and took up oil painting. Her creative journey offered her a way to connect with nature, beauty, and harmony—a stabilizing force in a life marked by change, challenge, and turbulence.
Later, following the career paths of two of her children, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. There, she worked in publishing for an overseas Chinese newspaper, video distribution, textbook publishing in Taiwan, and various civic-related activities. She also served as a congresswoman of the Republic of China. In her 90s, she broke new ground by becoming a student of Philip Chan of the Lingnan School—a modern Chinese art style.
Over the years, Jolene’s work has spanned traditional and modern Chinese painting as well as Western styles. She has synthesized these diverse elements into a unique artistic voice. Her subjects include landscapes, still life, animals, flowers, and people. Her work has been featured in over 60 exhibitions. She has actively participated in several organizations, including the North America Literature Society, Chinese Art Society, and Yu Yan Society—an art appreciation group in the San Francisco Bay Area. She organized an art exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, which featured 62 Western-style paintings from 33 artists in the United States and abroad.
Jolene has always maintained close ties with Taiwan. In 2017, she shared her work with the public in Taiwan, where 47 of her paintings were exhibited at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei. Her 100th birthday was celebrated with an art exhibit two years ago, showcasing some of her later works. She is the mother of Dr. Kristoffer Ning Chang, Plastic Surgeon at 2100 Webster, Suite 328.
Past Artists
Ginger Xu, MD, is a plastic surgeon at 2100 Webster who has had a lifelong penchant for the arts. She is fortunate to be able to apply this artistic lens to her work every day by enhancing and honoring the individual aesthetics of her patients with a fine-tuned sense of harmony and beauty.
Her journey in photography began in high school, where she first learned to develop her own film. She later presented a photojournalism project on Chinese migrant workers while attending college at Stanford. During medical school at NYU, she ran the Photography Club and spent study breaks making prints in the darkroom. She just recently picked up her camera and her craft again through a workshop led by Parker J Pfister in the Scottish Highlands.
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Darcy Fitzpatrick is a Professional Artist in Marin County, California with a BA in Fine Arts from UC Santa Cruz and a Graduate Degree in Education.
Early Life
Darcy has always been a passionate Artist. Some of her fondest childhood memories are of painting classes at the De Young Museum and painting wildlife at California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco – where her Father was Chief Curator of the Steinhart Aquarium.
As an exchange student in Glarus, Switzerland, Darcy took numerous painting classes and traveled around Europe studying art of the masters.
Influences
While studying at U.C. Santa Cruz, Darcy was greatly influenced by her professor and mentor, Mr. Eduardo Carrillo. A renowned painter with a museum dedicated to his works, Eduardo was a source of inspiration and enlightenment.
Other artists that have influenced Darcy include Edgar Payne, Kevin Short, Erin Hansen, Georgia O’Keeffe, and mentor and founder of Marin Open Studios, Kay Carlson.
Intention and Style
Darcy enjoys working in several mediums, including intricate Goauche watercolors, whimsical children’s collages, and her preferred medium, oil on canvas. Her subjects are predominately flowers, landscapes, and wildlife.
The intention of Darcy’s art is to capture movement and patterns in nature in a way that evokes emotion. Using impasto techniques to deepen and layer texture and colorist methods to exaggerate palette, she hopes to inspire “a feeling”.
Darcy intends to grow as an Artist, exploring new techniques, mediums, and subjects. She’s happiest when painting in her studio in Muir Beach – dancing around joyfully with her headphones on.
Jian Zhao is one of the most accomplished and controversial artists to emerge from China in recent years. An honor graduate from the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, He has exhibited widely and collected many awards and scholarships during his career as an artist.
Since 1986, Zhao has extended his art to what he calls “Concept 21” multi-media theatrical performances, depicting the complexity and beauty of the human condition, which were viewed as controversial. He continued his trend setting with performances at the Great Wall and Ming Tombs in later years. In the United States, Zhao has exhibited at the San Bernardino County Museum, Triton Museum of Art, California Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, P.S.1 Museum and other galleries in the United States. His work has been purchased by collectors from Finland to Malaysia and can be seen in museums throughout the world.
On June 23, 2001, Zhao’s seven-mile long earth-art work “Olympic Dragon” was unfurled on the Great Wall of China in support of Beijing’s bid for the 2008 Olympics. The work is noted in The Guinness Book of Records as the longest artwork in the world, and the China Postal Service and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Game Bid Committee issued a cover to commemorate the event. Juxtaposed with the “Olympic Dragon ” was a 16-foot tall bronze dragon head sculpture, which is a permanent fixture at the Great Wall. A 40-foot tall duplicate of the sculpture will be located at a new Olympic Park in Beijing. The event had live coverage by national and international media. Zhao was also featured in the national media CCTV show, “Oriental Horizon,” which is China’s most-watched TV magazine program. “Olympic Dragon” has been called one of the ten most important events of the bid to bring the Olympics to China.
In the past he has performed 2 artwork memorials for 9/11 victims, It was covered internationally by CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Japan TV, CCTV (China National),Span TV, Russian National TV and was listed in TIME magazine, making the front pages of many newspapers and headlining many TV and radio news broadcasts including NEW YORK POST, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, S.F.CHRONICLE, S.J.MERCURY, EXAMINER…
Alex Friedman has been creating tapestries for over 40 years. After completing her degree in Art History at Skidmore College, she turned to creating textiles with passion. She worked on a huge commission
for Pan Am’s first fleet of jumbo jets and followed that with weaving commissions for corporate, liturgical and private clients.
As Director and Board member of the American Tapestry Alliance
(2000-2008), she chaired an international community of over
600 members.
Since returning to California from abroad, she maintains a studio
in Sausalito, is an active member of Tapestry Weavers West, and serves on the board of the Textile Arts Council at the de Young Museum of San Francisco.
She exhibits her tapestries nationally and internationally.